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Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5107 (OECD) is correct. Excellent!

#5109. Name the space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA); it was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched, carrying a single 3.5-metre (11.5 ft) mirror and instruments sensitive to the far infrared and submillimetre wavebands (55–672 µm). It was the fourth cornerstone mission in the ESA science program, along with Rosetta, Planck, and Gaia.

#5110. Name the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. Also state her full name.

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Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5109 and #5110 are correct. Marvelous!

#5111. Name the Awarded for best first book, the Commonwealth Book Prize was established in 2012 for writers who were Commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over and who have had their first novel (full length work of fiction) published in the year of entry. It is the prize which was part of an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation which seeks to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth.

#5112. In which year was the first Grammy awards given?

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

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Hi bobbym,

#5113. In which year was MTV Video Music Award given the first time?

#5114. Name the literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. Beginning in 2014, it will consider authors from anywhere in the world, as long as their work is in English and published in the UK. The winner is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5117 (Tripoli and Libyan dinar) is correct. Excellent!

#5119. Name the the first artificial Earth satellite; it was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable.

#5120. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft. When did he complete an orbit of the Earth (Year and date)?

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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Both the Answers, #5119 and #5120, are correct. Excellent!

#5121. One of the Greatest Catastrophes on History of Mankind : Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest Department), approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC). In which year did it occur?

#5122. In May 2008, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9/8.0 hit just 79 kilometres (49 mi) northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu. Official figures recorded a death toll of nearly 70,000 people, and millions of people were left homeless. Where did the catastrophe occur?

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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Hi bobbym,

The Answers #5121 and #5122 are correct. Marvelous!

#5123. Name the period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons. During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.

#1846. When was the The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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Hi bobbym,

The Answer #5126 is correct! Excellent, bobbym!

#5127. Who is the author of Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets?

#5128. Name the the first President of the Republic of India. When India became a Republic in 1950, he was elected its first President by the Constituent Assembly. Following the general election of 1951, he was elected President by the electoral college of the first Parliament of India and its state legislatures.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.